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About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.

Job Description

One Acre Fund relies on our Product Innovation team to find the most impactful agricultural practices and products for farmers. Every season we run both farmer trials and surveys to inform our extension and product offering decisions. Great innovation comes from excellent background research, a true understanding of our client base, excellent trial implementation, and by implementing a scaling process that allows us to translate product pilot/trial results into our full program.

You will:

  • Lead product and service scaling to our different channels for serving farmers (core program and whole market)
    • Work with Field Operations, Logistics, Business Operations, and M&E to grow the most promising new products, services, or training into our field programs.
    • Support external departments on newly scaled products
  • Implement periodic product impact evaluations for non-agricultural products
  • Conduct behavior change work
    • Lead the Product Innovations team in behavior change research to develop solutions that enable farmers to adopt best agricultural practices
  • Grow our Agroforestry work
    • Lead the Product Innovations team in scaling research related to timber and fruit tree species- how to get the right trees to our farmer base
  • Conduct trial design, data analysis, and reporting
    • Develop trials for potentially impactful products and related impact models
    • Infer patterns and trends in data collected from the field and report findings through distribution postmortem reports and full trial reports
    • Develop and contribute to team/division strategy memos
  • Build external partner relationships
    • Initiate and manage collaborative projects with external partners, which includes drafting MoUs, periodic reporting and ensuring OAF policies are followed in all communication and results sharing
  • Lead team administration
    • Create the annual division budget
    • Monitor expenditure and implement efficiency strategies
  • Team Performance Management
    • Support capacity development of direct reports and entire product scaling team in general
  • Conduct periodic performance reviews

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. Youll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. Youll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

  • Agricultural economics/business management background coupled with experience designing surveys and running impact evaluations
  • Product/business scale-up mindset
  • Team leadership experience (or demonstrates an ability to do it)
  • Experience with Stata or R statistical packages

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  • Job City Kigali
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One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Headquartered in Bungoma, Kenya, the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Malawi.

Using a market-based approach, One Acre Fund facilitates activities and transactions at various levels of the farming value chain, including seed sourcing and market support. In 2015, farmers who worked with One Acre Fund realized a 300% return on their investment and significantly increased farm income on every planted acre.

One Acre Fund offers smallholder farmers an asset-based loan that includes: 1) distribution of seeds and fertilizer; 2) financing for farm inputs; 3) training on agriculture techniques; and 4) market facilitation to maximize profits. Each service bundle is around US$80 in value and includes crop insurance to mitigate the risks of drought and disease.

To receive the One Acre Fund loan and training, farmers must join a village group that is supported by a local One Acre Fund field officer. Field officers meet regularly with the farmer groups to coordinate delivery of farm inputs, administer trainings and to collect repayments. One Acre Fund offers a flexible repayment system: farmers may pay back their loans in any increment at any time during the growing season. Beyond their core program model, One Acre Fund also offers smallholder farmers opportunities to purchase additional products and services on credit. These include solar lights and reusable sanitary pads.

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0 USD Kigali CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week One Acre Fund

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.

Job Description

One Acre Fund relies on our Product Innovation team to find the most impactful agricultural practices and products for farmers. Every season we run both farmer trials and surveys to inform our extension and product offering decisions. Great innovation comes from excellent background research, a true understanding of our client base, excellent trial implementation, and by implementing a scaling process that allows us to translate product pilot/trial results into our full program.

You will:

  • Lead product and service scaling to our different channels for serving farmers (core program and whole market)
    • Work with Field Operations, Logistics, Business Operations, and M&E to grow the most promising new products, services, or training into our field programs.
    • Support external departments on newly scaled products
  • Implement periodic product impact evaluations for non-agricultural products
  • Conduct behavior change work
    • Lead the Product Innovations team in behavior change research to develop solutions that enable farmers to adopt best agricultural practices
  • Grow our Agroforestry work
    • Lead the Product Innovations team in scaling research related to timber and fruit tree species- how to get the right trees to our farmer base
  • Conduct trial design, data analysis, and reporting
    • Develop trials for potentially impactful products and related impact models
    • Infer patterns and trends in data collected from the field and report findings through distribution postmortem reports and full trial reports
    • Develop and contribute to team/division strategy memos
  • Build external partner relationships
    • Initiate and manage collaborative projects with external partners, which includes drafting MoUs, periodic reporting and ensuring OAF policies are followed in all communication and results sharing
  • Lead team administration
    • Create the annual division budget
    • Monitor expenditure and implement efficiency strategies
  • Team Performance Management
    • Support capacity development of direct reports and entire product scaling team in general
  • Conduct periodic performance reviews

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. Youll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. Youll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

  • Agricultural economics/business management background coupled with experience designing surveys and running impact evaluations
  • Product/business scale-up mindset
  • Team leadership experience (or demonstrates an ability to do it)
  • Experience with Stata or R statistical packages
2020-09-25

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